About SQL Server Analysis Services

01/26/2018

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Analysis Services is an analytical data engine used in decision support and business analytics. It provides enterprise-grade semantic data models for business reports and client applications such as Power BI, Excel, Reporting Services reports, and other data visualization tools.

A typical workflow includes creating a multidimensional or tabular data model project in Visual Studio, deploying the model as a database to a server instance, setting up recurring data processing, and assigning permissions to allow data access by end-users. When it's ready to go, your semantic data model can be accessed by client applications supporting Analysis Services as a data source.

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This article and documentation in this section is mostly for SQL Server Analysis Services. However, at least for tabular models, how you create and deploy your projects is much the same, regardless of the platform you're using. Check out these sections to learn more:

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